C3 Siem Reap Update

Last week we had a wonderful visit from my sister Cathy and her husband Mark. It was great catching up with family and showing them around the city of Siem Reap. Family are a blessing and I just want to encourage you not to take what you have for granted. God has put us in a family and we must cherish them with our time, our love, our support and definitely our prayers.

Some plant, others harvest!

We visited a village in Puok district about 18 kms from Siem Reap. When we arrived they were planting rice out in the rice fields. Mark decided to help them as rice planting is hard work and after all, we are here to support the people, build relationships and show the love of Jesus. They were really appreciative, I think, and Mark promised to come and help for another 10 minutes in the future, gosh we went away feeling like we had really made a difference!!!!!!


The English class are growing in numbers. We are still getting inquiries and people wanting to join our class. This is a great way to meet the locals and a few of them are interested in coming to church on Sundays. I am also learning about English as I am teaching. We are realising we can speak English but we do not know why we say it the way we do!!


Our Sunday meeting starts at 8.30am and by 8.50am only 1 person had arrived, after a short meeting we decided to go and have coffee. The kettle went on and the food came out and 11 people came through the door. They were late as Sunday was election day in Cambodia.


So we had church and Mark taught about God's love and the family relationships. For a Cambodian, love is not shown openly and to be told that God loves them no matter what is a real revelation and encouragement to them. That morning we saw 4 people give their lives to Jesus!! 


Then on Tuesday our young members had a day off school so they came over for a visit. What a great time we had eating, playing soccer, doing puzzles and just hanging out. What a joy to know we are making an impact as they want to come and see us. Language is still a barrier but Gods love seems to break those barriers down. Pray for these young people who will be the leaders of tomorrow.


Keep supporting us with your words of encouragement, your prayers and your finances. We are moving forward, taking this land and bit by bit impacting lives with the love of God wherever we go. Love you xxxxxxxxxxxx